A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body - the wishbone.

The difference between a job and a career is the difference between forty and sixty hours a week.

Poetry is a reaching out forward expression, an effort to find fulfillment

He burned his house down for the fire insurance and spent the proceeds on a telescope.

Always fall in with what you're asked to accept. Take what is given, and make it over your way. My aim in life has always been to hold my own with whatever's going. Not against: with.

The style is the man. Rather say the style is the way the man takes himself; and to be at all charming or even bearable, the way is almost rigidly prescribed. If it is with outer seriousness, it must be with inner humor. If it is with outer humor, it must be with inner seriousness. No other way will do.

Modern poets talk against business, poor things, but all of us write for money. Beginners are subjected to trial by market.